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Saturday, 6 July 2013

The epic ballad of Supanova 2013

Hallo!

I hath returned!
with tidings and...stuff.

I was meant to post
this last week but considering that I was sick, exhausted and dealing with End
of Financial Year at work, I haven't really had any time to type anything other
than a text message (badly).

So, if anyone remembers from last year's post, Supanova is
Sydney's biggest Nerdy Con of the year, it is actually a nationwide tour
starting in Brisbane, then Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and then even
gets itself to New Zealand (maybe not in that order).Sydney's one always happens roughly mid-year.

This year I decided to be a vendor, seeing as I detest
selling at Animania and figured I might have a better market to blow out on.

I also said this would be my last year as a vendor, I said
that last year too… and the year before that…

um…

Yeah.

About that.

Ok, so let me explain things first.

People are evil.Really, really, really evil.And
cruel too! they enjoy seeing me slog on through my exhaustion and get stressed
and panicked and make stuff and worry and work hard.

All in all, I did super well.The antlers flew off the table like no one's
business, and people said that maybe I was selling a bit too cheap.

Admittedly, I think that maybe I was, however, considering
that I haven't got my sculpting technique down pat and that I am terrified that
the pieces are still too fragile, I think the price is fair.I do include care guides for my pieces
because they are still delicate and in any case, I was just happy to see people
like the stuff so much because of the craftsmanship AND the price. But as you can see, I am getting better with detailing.

My accessories went well too.Mainly with my mini terrariums proving a
popular success – maybe I'll stick to these two things and not do the other
stuff.My bibs were not as popular as I
thought they would be.

Another thing was my steampunk pocket watches, I was
surprised how some people came back asking me to make more.I am considering making these a steady
product as well, except they take so long to make and damnit I get tiiiiiired.

TAKES FOREVER!

By the end of the convention I had 4 items left on my
table.So all in all, SUCCESS!!

I pretty much sold out of all the important pieces and got
to spend a lot of time just bumbling about and reacquainting myself with old
friends and making new ones.

Special Kudos goes to my good friends on the other side of
artists alley who totally rocked it!!!

Mogo & Co – run by G and M and are so utterly adorable
and cute its just unbelievable.

My epic comic buddy Paul, writer extraordinaire of the indie
comic Pandeia, which is getting a lot of press lately and has been signed up to
do a panel at the next con SMASH!.I am
one of his biggest fans and am so excited to gush over his work any time.

Paul also shared a table with Daniel DeLafoix, who does this
incredible historical horror comic called Morlock.Volume two is coming out soon and eee! its so
exciting. (I need a link here, can't find his site yet – check on Facebook, its
amazing!)

creative buddies, (left to right) Paul of Pandeia and J from Nekochii (OMG LOOK AT HER AMAZING LION CORSET!!!!!)

I also caught up with an old friend I also made last year,
S, who is the writer of the ridiculously ridiculous and good Zombie Cities graphic novel by Silver Fox comics.He
also gave me issues one and two of the first ever published Zorro comics that
he is writing.Needless to say I was
stoked.I got the comics as an extra
prize for supporting one of their Kickstarter campaigns and he also knew I was
probably the only one excited for Zorro that he knew of.

I also made new friends among which is Julie Dietrich of
Elf-fin/Black Mermaid Productions (the other half being Jozef Szekeres), a
true-blue aussie graphic novel about elf mermaids… its like, a fugging glittery
double whammy of… glittery… things.It's
great for young people and is preposterously and beautifully drawn.

pretend I am not pointing at my crotch and imagine my lower hand has a gun ok... OK?!

So, ok – it wasn't that bad this year.

Or I didn't take photos of bad ones anyway…

AMAZEBALLS

And some were just really… cute.I mean… LOOK AT THE REALISTIC ATTEMPT TO MAKE
FLAMEY HAIR IT’S A+ FOR EFFORT.

There was a yelling guy who I thought was a rally angry
Dovakhiin.Turns out he's an actor who
was pimping this new indie fantasy show he's on by staying in character and
scaring the everloving shit out of every poor socially maladjusted and
introverted and shy nerd that walked by.

SO ANGRY

Us amused bystanders just yelled out 'Now Kiss!' as often
as possible.Because whjo doesn’t want
to see burly angry man making out with all the people cosplaying other swarthy
men.

It seems slash is a fast growing thing? or is that just
Reddit?

Oh – and the hottest Jean Grey…. oh my goooooooood.

Dr Who shizzle was out the bizzle too.There was a life sized Tardis two tables down
from us and all the fangirls 'singing' the Dr Who theme song.

FUCKING 'EY - Vashta Nerada....

I also got things autographed!!!!

Chris Claremont, writer extraordinaire of Xmen (in
particular, my fave story arc, the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix Sagas) signed my
Dark Phoenix issue.And George Perez,
who wrote Wonder Woman in the 80/90s signed my 1987 issue of Wonder Woman (part
2 of the Challenge of the Gods, one of my utter fave issues!!! Hippolyta is
amazing!).

I also got Karl Urban to sign my #1 issue of the new
editions of Judge Dredd.

SO MANY COMICS EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Ok – strange story time! (maybe not so strange and I'm just
starstruck/think I'm funny):

<When Karl signed my comic he sort of did a double take, or
most likely, as it was 4 in the afternoon, a blank-face.I cannot even begin to imagine how weird it
must be to constantly sign photographs with your own face on it until maybe you
start forgetting what you look like or become insanely narcissistic from looking
at yourself so many times.Anyway, he
sort of just paused, maybe realising that what he was signing wasn’t even his
own face.Or maybe he couldn’t remember
that he had done Judge Dredd and he just stared at the comic jacket until he
started to write.

He was doing fine, writing my name and then, he wrote ' I am
th-', and paused.I kind of got worried
and wondered I should mention that, in the King's English (or Queen's), we
generally put an 'E' in 'the'.I didn't
because I would have been a serious douche and prat even if it would have been
a joke, he was most likely exhausted and hard to think really hard.

Eventually he finished it with 'I AM THE LAW' and, I think
he wanted to draw something but ended up drawing a HUGE exclamation mark.

Either way, I kinda went ' Whoo, you rock!' and he suddenly
looked up mildly surprised and thanked me.

Anyway.It seemed
funny.It was funny, right? It was
funny.Yep.>

/Story time over.

Aidan Turner, Adam, Brown and Jed Brophy, better known as
Kili, Ori and Nori in the Hobbit were also there.Of course everyone wanted to see Kili (the
pretty not an Elf but damn close dwarf why wasn’t Thorin there damnit he is
glory and majestic and awesome and holy shit who knew the dude from Spooks
could be so hot).

Mr Turner seemed pretty cool with all the fans and took time
to chat to the mostly girls in line and seemed quite entranced by one girl's
leather jacket and all the girls wearing Tolkien Black Milk Leggings.Which are all awesome but ridiculously
overpriced (but damn I want the map of Middle Earth one, wow!).

Alan Tudyk was there in all his friendly and charming Wash-y
glory and a friend took a photo with him with some toy dinosaurs for the
feels.He is a leaf on the wind.Ugh, if only the lines weren’t so fucking
looooong – he was like, the biggest thing at that con since the double edged
light-saber.

And Bambi put shit-tons of effort on his cosplay and came as an obscure Anime character...

Either way, it was another great year and I really enjoyed
myself as always and there was no sleep to be had, and barely any food and sore
feet, and early starts and bad hygiene (not from me pfffft, hand sanitiser
EVERYWHERE) and loud, delirious yelling of 'You know nothing Jon Snow' every
now and then.

not Jon Snow... but you know, I didn't know where else to put this

Oh, and every one was evil because they've somehow convinced
me to do next year.

I also have a project coming up involving a certain pimp-y
and Sassy Wizard.Stay tuned…

Also, my last Masters course starts in a few weeks and then
after that, its all fair game.You have
been warned.

So with that, I am out! (ALSO CLICK ALL THE LINKS BECAUSE THE MORE YOU KNOW)

NB: - I'll be redesigning the layout of this blog but honestly, I am lazy, so put up with it for a while ok? shanks!